The Trump administration and Russian officials have secretly been hashing out a revised plan to end Moscow’s 33-month-old invasion of Ukraine.
The 28-point framework is inspired by President Trump’s 20-point road map for ending the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Axios reported, citing US and Russian officials.
The plan is meant to be a sweeping blueprint that not only ends the war in Ukraine but hashes out questions about security guarantees for the Kyiv government and the rest of Europe as well as future ties between Washington and the two warring nations.
“We feel the Russian position is really being heard,” Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund who has taken a greater hand in the Kremlin’s diplomatic push, told the outlet in an interview Monday.
Dmitriev added that he met with Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff and other administration officials for three days in Miami late last month. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian official told the outlet that Witkoff discussed the plan with Kyiv’s national security adviser, Rustem Umerov.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Turkey Wednesday to meet with the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“Foremost, we will discuss maximum capabilities to ensure that Ukraine achieves a just peace,” Zelensky told reporters of the plans for his discussion with Erdogan, adding: “We see some positions and signals from the United States, well, let’s see tomorrow.”
Overnight, Russian drones and missiles blitzed the western city of Ternopil, striking two nine-story apartment blocks and killing at least 20 people, including two children, and injuring at least 66 others.
